Re: [PATCH 18/20] objtool: Add UACCESS validation

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Mar 07 2019 - 11:33:51 EST


On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 3:52 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> XXX: are we sure we want __memset marked AC-safe?

It's certainly one of the safer functions to call with AC set, but it
sounds wrong anyway. It's not like it's likely to leak kernel data
(most memset's are with 0, and even the non-zero ones I can't imagine
are sensitive - more like poison values etc).

What's the call site that made you go "just add __memset() to the list"?

Linus